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A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and…
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton ... and wife of Richard Baxter ... : there is also published the character of her mother, truly described in her published funeral sermon, reprinted at her daughters request, called, The last work of a believer, his passing-prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ, to be received by him.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
VI. Even as it persuadeth me the easilier to believe that there are Devils, when I see their very nature, and works, in Devils incarnate, and see what a Kingdom he plainly ruleth in the world; and to believe that there is a Hell when I see so much of Hell on Earth.
VI. Even as it perswadeth me the easilier to believe that there are Devils, when I see their very nature, and works, in Devils incarnate, and see what a Kingdom he plainly ruleth in the world; and to believe that there is a Hell when I see so much of Hell on Earth.
§. 3. It may teach us that the state of Godliness is not to be judged of by the fears and sorrows in which it usually begins: A mans life is not like his Infancy at his birth. The fears and penitent sorrows which foolish fleshly sinners fly from, do tend to everlasting peace and joy: and perfect love will cast out all tormenting fears, unless it be those of a timorous diseased temper, which have more of sickness than of ⟨p. 97⟩sin, and will be laid aside with the body, which was their cause. A life of peace and joy on earth may succeed the tremblings of the new-born Convert; but a life of full everlasting joy will certainly succeed the perseverance, and victory of every believing holy soul.
§. 3. It may teach us that the state of Godliness is not to be judged of by the fears and sorrows in which it usually begins: A mans life is not like his Infancy at his birth. The fears and penitent sorrows which foolish fleshly sinners fly from, do tend to everlasting peace and joy: and perfect love will cast out all tormenting fears, unless it be those of a timerous diseased temper, which have more of sickness than of ⟨p. 97⟩sin, and will be laid aside with the body, which was their cause. A life of peace and joy on earth may succeed the tremblings of the new-born Convert; but a life of full everlasting joy will certainly succeed the perseverance, and victory of every believing holy soul.